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Chapter 1184 Chapter 1184: By mistake, they are all old friends (Part 2) [Asking for monthly votes]

 How many people who work as counselors are slow-minded?

 Liao Jia realized something in a blink of an eye, and his pupils trembled obviously. He suppressed his excitement, took a deep breath to steady his uncontrollably beating heart, and asked expectantly: "The Lord is asking, is it because he has seen a similar jade pendant somewhere?"

 He looked nervously at Shen Tang's lips.

 Afraid that the other person will give an answer that is contrary to his expectations.

  Shen Tang knew the importance of this matter to Liao Jia, so naturally he would not tempt him, and was ready to explain all the details happily. Just as he was about to speak, Cui Mi heard that Shen Tang had returned from an inspection outside and was ready to discuss matters with her. Stepping forward with his left foot, Shen Tang pointed at him with his right hand: "I have seen this jade pendant on Hou Bai."

Before Cui Mi could digest what this meant, a dark shadow passed before his eyes, and a face full of complex emotions approached in front of him. He ducked back suddenly, raised his hand to reject Lio Jia, and said, "Wait, it's not me, you got the wrong person!"

 Lio Jia's emotions came to an abrupt end.

 He looked at Cui Mi's face carefully, trying to find the shadow of his old friend in his eyebrows. After searching for a long time, I always felt that the other person's facial features were between similar and not at all similar, and he looked like a sea of ​​people: "I haven't spoken yet, how do you know what I am going to do? And how are you sure that I must have identified the wrong person?" ?”

Cui Mi is only willing to answer the latter question.

 “You must have made a mistake, because the age is not right.”

 Lio Jia's brain cooled down slightly.

Just as Cui Mi said, he is a few years younger than the person he is looking for. The latter has long passed his prime, and the young man in front of him still has an unpolished childlike look on his face. However, if we deny the speculation that Cui Mi is the son of an old friend, then why does he have half a jade pendant on his body? Is the real owner of the jade pendant still alive?

Before Liao Jia had time to feel the joy carefully, clues pointed to the worst outcome, and the ups and downs made him feel depressed. He secretly bit his back molars and suppressed the convulsive illusion: "Mr. Lang, can you tell me how you got that jade pendant? Where is the original owner of the jade pendant now? This matter is very important to Liao Mou!"

Cui Mi said: "I picked it up when I was bathing by the river that day."

This southwest region has more than 200 days of either cold or humid weather throughout the year. No matter how thin a summer shirt is, it will make you sweat all over, let alone braving the sun for several hours. People who act like cows and horses have endless energy and endless chores every day. After a day or two, their skin will be sticky and their sleep will not be stable. Therefore, bathing is particularly diligent.

 As evening approaches, the brave warriors who have finished their work dive into the water like dumplings. No matter the water is river, stream or whatever, they just want to wash themselves off. Although Cui Mi came from a noble family, he was not so particular and would bathe outside just like them.

After taking a bath that day, he sat on a stone by the stream and waited to be dried. He saw something floating from upstream from a distance and got stuck in the stone. Curious, he stepped forward and pushed aside the stream stone, only to find that it was half a jade pendant. The texture of this jade pendant is of high quality, but what’s even more rare is its workmanship. Judging from the shape, it should have another half. The gap in the jade pendant is beautifully carved, and it can be rotated at a certain angle to form a complete piece. Cui Mi searched up the stream, but couldn't find anyone, so he could only come back with half a jade pendant.

 Liao Jia asked: “Where is the jade pendant?”

Cui Mi asked someone to go to his room to get it.

Lio Jia stared blankly at the two jade pendants that were perfectly aligned with each other. He habitually hid the endless pain in his heart. He made a judgment and analysis: "The color of the rope of this jade pendant is still bright. It should have been replaced last time." Within a year, it is very likely that the owner accidentally lost it while taking a bath... the person may still be in the county. "

 Cui Mi added information.

"The stream was just cleared last month. It was specially dug to irrigate the newly cultivated fields nearby. There is a lot of noise nearby, and ordinary people are not allowed to approach without authorization. The only ones who are likely to go there to take a bath are the warriors. The person you are looking for may be among them." This may not be good news.

Those who are brave and brave are all knights.

It is also possible that the jade pendant came from them for their "righteousness and chivalry".

Liao Jia can naturally think of this.

However, this is much better than finding a needle in a haystack at the beginning. Liao Jia couldn't wait to find someone with the jade pendant. Cui Mi raised his hand and held his arm, and the two looked at each other. Cui Mi looked stunned for a moment, then quickly ran away like an electric shock.

 “At this hour, they should be taking a shower.”

 Everyone is naked, making it easy to see anything.

Liao Jia realized that Cui Mi's ability was extraordinary and subconsciously looked at his master. Shen Tang nodded at him: "Go ahead."

 The subtext is that Cui Mi is temporarily trustworthy.

Liao Jia cupped his hands and stepped back. Before he could step out of the threshold, he used the "Chasing Wind and Sneaking Scenery" technique with one hand, turning into a misty red shadow and blinking away. Cui Mi smiled and said, "Sister Shen, don't you want to go take a look?"

Shen Tang rolled his eyes and was not interested in Cui Mi's suggestion at all: "If you look at a piece of ass, what's there to see?"

Taking a bath and washing your hair by the water is a major local feature.

 Take a bath and rub your clothes together, including but not limited to holding your belly and crotch. On a rare day when the temperature was just right, Shen Tang went out for a walk and was caught off guard when he saw dozens of men bathing in the water with no upper body. They were standing in the shallow water, only taking off their upper body, and wearing shields or trousers underneath. , only the part above the neck is exposed in a relatively deep place... I won’t say much about the picture. Men are like this, and some married women and older women will wash their clothes by the river and then take a bath in the water.

 Similar scenes are rare in the northwest.

It's not that the folk customs are more conservative than here, it's simply because the northwest is colder most of the time. Ordinary people will die if they get cold, and it's too luxurious to boil hot water for bathing at home. Before Shen Tang promoted earthen kangs and built a perfume store, bathing once a month was considered a clean habit. Sure enough, the soil and water support the people.

Shen Tang thought of something and smiled maliciously.

“However, you can watch Zun Guang’s show.”

 Shen Tang did not tell Cui Mi about Liao Jia's real vest. The [Zunguang] in her mouth was Liao Jia, but in Cui Mi's ears it was someone else: "Has the Lord guessed who the owner of the jade pendant is?"

 Chui Mi just found out the identity of the owner of the jade pendant.

 He saw several pictures on Lio Jia and was basically sure who the other party was looking for. Cui Mi didn't say that he just didn't want to expose his ability, and he didn't like to get involved in other people's causes and effects. Even if he didn't say it, it would be a matter of time before Lio Jia found someone.

Shen Tang said: “You’ll know if you go and see it?”

 The two of them followed him up.

The picture in Shen Tang's imagination is that Liao Jia is hiding in the dark, looking for people furtively, and his aura will be exposed sooner or later. There is a high probability that he will be regarded as a pervert by the warriors taking a bath. If the situation gets out of control, he will come out to **** Liao Jia away. In fact, Liao Jia just calmly and openly walked to the water's edge, bent down and placed the wooden clogs he had taken off neatly on the shore, and naturally took off his outer shirt.

The warriors who were taking a cool bath in the water to escape the heat paid attention to him at first, but when they saw that he did not behave unusually, they all turned their attention away. He took a bath, rubbed his clothes, chatted... He even chatted with Liao Jia when he was half-wrapped and getting into the water: "This husband is very shy, is he here because of his reputation?"

  Liao Jia **** her long hair and said, "Yeah."

The peripheral vision swept across everyone's waist inadvertently.

Scanned a dozen people, but couldn't find the birthmark he wanted.

until-

 A target appears in sight.

There is a birthmark on the waist, the color is not very thick, and it is blocked and cannot be seen clearly. Lia Jia wanted to get closer to see clearly, but the man turned around and the birthmark disappeared from sight. Instead, there was a well-defined abdomen and criss-crossed old wounds. One of them was the most terrifying, almost diagonally spanning from the waist and abdomen to the thigh, and the marks were the deepest. Liao Jia raised her head to look at his face.

 Pork buns: “…”

 As a brave warrior, his sense of breath is naturally not weak. Liao Jia looked at his ten breaths and saw that he was like a ray of light on his back! Just as he was about to teach someone a lesson for looking down on him, he saw a face he had just seen not long ago. That red-robed scribe with a hairpin brought over by a profiteer who made only five cents and two cents! The profiteer who has the same name and surname as him makes him lose his real name to the top! No, is this person sick?

  Are literary scholars actually used to bathing in the open air?

 Looking at the whole process of the other person's eyes and emotions from scrutiny, consideration, surprise to excitement, he felt goosebumps all over his body and wanted to rebel. Good guy, this profiteer is not only evil-hearted, he is also a manly man? In a flash, he had an idea.

　　　Secretly he winked at his bastard.

The two dog legs understood each other and sank into the water tacitly, making gestures to swim. He secretly did something dirty, and as long as no one or evidence was caught, he could only suffer the secret loss, which was a lesson to him. At this time, Lio Jia took out an object that was very familiar to him. Roubaozi was instantly angry: "Okay, it turns out you were the thief who stole my things!"

 Liao Jia didn’t have time to say anything she wanted to recognize her relatives.

 Two forces suddenly came from his legs, pulling him down!

Other warriors heard the commotion and didn't care what happened. They only knew that Lio Jia was a thief who stole things, and what he stole belonged to their foreman! Is this okay? Whether half of the body is immersed in the water or even the whole body is in the water from the neck down, the waves will pounce on them.    Liao Jia: “…”

  Shen Tang: “…”

Cui Mi patted the stone and smiled until his mouth twisted.

Even though he had already seen this scene, he still felt shocked when he saw it again! Liao Jia also didn't expect that one day he would be surrounded by dozens of naked men. As soon as he was dragged into the water, he used the spirit of words. Shen Tang keenly noticed that there was more water vapor in the air around him, and he knew that Liao Jia had made a bad move without turning his head.

 He replaced himself with Cui Mi.

Who made this kid laugh so loudly!

  Shen Tang: “…”

　　Even though she choked on her mouth, Lio Jia was in the best mood ever. Not to mention the chaotic scene, at least he found someone. Lio Jia slowly put on her clothes: "The child just now is the person I am looking for. His appearance is somewhat similar to hers, and he also has a jade pendant and a birthmark on his waist..."

There is no place to be found even if one wears iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get there.

Liao Jia asked again: "That Erlangjun of the Cui family has some special abilities. He didn't know me but knew that I was looking for someone. He almost misunderstood that it was him... maybe it was for a rainy day? It's a pity that Luan Gongyi is not here, otherwise we can ask him What is it?”

 “You have offended him, be careful that he causes trouble for you.”

 The Cui family's influence in Qi State should not be underestimated.

Perhaps because he found the son of his old friend, Liu Jia's depression dissipated seven points, and his mood became clearer: "So what if he can prepare for a rainy day? The future he saw is only a possibility of the future, and I have three thousand poisonous plans, he How many can you guard against?"

 Liao Jia came to Qi State this time to stir up trouble.

 “The wrong person was arrested—”

"Stop!"

 Finding that the person being besieged had changed from Liao Jia to Erlang Jun, Roubaozi's heart was about to fly, and the four words "My life is at stake" hung in his mind. After the chickens and dogs jumped over, the wet Cui Moose was fished out. Shen Tang did not show up, but just sent a message to Cui Mi and Roubaozi, asking them to come to him with Lio Jia.

 Roubaozi thought that a disaster was coming.

 “Shen County Cheng…was he always here just now?”

Shen Tang said: "I am accompanying Zun Guang to look for someone."

Cui Mi realized that the "Zun Guang" mentioned by Shen Tang was not the same person as he thought, and his eyes fell on Lio Jia: "Is your name Zun Guang too?"

Shen Tang: “Yeah?”

Cui Mi pointed at Roubaozi and said, "His name is also Zun Guang."

 Liao Jia used Wenqi to dry the water stains on his body.

After the chaos just now, the tear-jerking part of the family recognition session couldn't be staged at all. Liao Jia just wanted to know a definite answer. He asked the young man next to him: "Your name is Liao Qian, Liao Zunguang? Which elder in the family gave you this name?"

  Rou Baozi pursed his lips and said nothing.

Lia Jia asked a series of questions: "Is it your father or your mother? Or do you forget it? You should have an elder sister. Where is your elder sister? Is she with you?"

The real Liao Qian frowned: "Why do you ask these questions?"

Liao Jia spread out the palms of his hands, and two jade pendants appeared in front of Liao Qian's eyes. In Liao Qian's memory, there were only half pieces of this jade pendant, one piece belonged to him, and the other half belonged to Liao Jia. There must be some connection between the two: "Who are you?"

 “From your mother’s side, I am your uncle.”

 “From your father’s side, he’s also your uncle!”

“If you want, just call me uncle.”

Liao Qian just took a step back, feeling ridiculous and said on guard: "You want to recognize your relatives with just a jade pendant without proof or certificate? What uncle and uncle? The relationship in your family is really chaotic..."

 He has little memory of the past.

I only vaguely remember that I had a hard time when I was a child. My sister held my hand, and the two siblings hid here and there. They were so hungry that they could pick up anything to satisfy their hunger. Liao Jia's appearance and demeanor are no less than those of a man from a noble family. It really matters, why did their siblings suffer?

 Liao Jiadao: “…”

  He was speechless in response to Liao Qian's evaluation.

 He asked again: “Where is your sister?”

"at home."

"Your mother left your sister to me as an orphan back then without mentioning what happened to you. You have grown up and can barely protect yourself. I will not interfere with whatever path you want to take. If you have any difficulties in the future, just come to me. "Your sister, I want to take you away."

 Liao Qian picked his ears and thought he heard wrongly.

“You want to take my sister away? Just ask why?”

Liao Jia said: "Just rely on this letter from your mother."

 A letter that has been with him for many years is also a lifelong regret for him. The son of an old friend that Liao Jia always misses is Liao Qian's sister, not Liao Qian: "Her lifelong regret is that it was difficult to realize her ambition, which delayed your father's life and cost him his life. What she missed must be made to her." Future generations will grasp it.”

Liao Qian said he didn't care, but in his heart he was eager to see what was written in the letter - he didn't have the concept of mother in his memory, there was just an elder sister who was like a mother, but it didn't mean that he didn't want to know about that strange woman. Just a few words.

 Opening the letter, what caught my eye was the scrawled handwriting.

 It can be seen that the writer's wrist is weak and he writes in a hurry.

 “Her life ambition?”

  Liao Jiandao: "She has a fighting spirit to become an official."

Liao Qian returned the letter to Liao Jia: "But everyone has their own ambitions. Let's not say whether what you said is true or false. Even if it is true, our mother is really her, which does not mean that my sister will take the path she wants to take. Right? It’s her business to have the ambition to become an official. My sister is not her substitute. What I am most comfortable with is a mallet, not a sword and a pen.”

　　When the current ruler came to power, he thought about the possibility of my sister practicing cultivation. He did not seek to become stronger, but only sought to strengthen his body and prolong his life. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, it is worth trying, but my sister said: "Your world is too complicated, I won't go there." Whether they are brave warriors or literary scholars, aren't they all human beings? Ordinary people are people too! We are all human beings, and they can be classified into different grades. 】

  【Then my sister can only stay with me for another thirty or forty years. 】

 A sister hit him on the head with a mallet.

　　　【I don’t have to be someone like you to be complete and complete in my whole life. I am tired enough after living my whole life. The greed of ordinary people can be easily satisfied, as long as they have enough to eat and drink, but for people like you, you will never be satisfied no matter how much you get, and you will feel exhausted just thinking about it. Nothing is difficult in the world, as long as you are willing to give up...]

In her eyes, literary scholars/valiant warriors are ordinary people, nothing noble, and there is no need to pursue them deliberately.

  |ω`)

  I only slept four or five hours out of 48 hours in two days. I felt like I was about to ascend. During the funeral today, the sun was so strong and poisonous that I suffered from heat stroke... I felt nauseous and uncomfortable, and I felt like vomiting after watching everything at the banquet.

 The last time I remember having a heat stroke was the last time.